S&B Engineers and Constructors (S&B) has secured an engineering and construction contract from Chevron Phillips Chemical for its world-scale 1-hexene unit in Texas, USA. The new unit is expected to produce up to 266,000 metric tons per year of 1-hexene.

Repsol and Tecnicas Reunidas have entered into a strategic agreement to develop new industrial decarbonization technologies in order to produce sustainable biofuels and bio-based polymers from agricultural and agri-food waste.

Located at Shell’s Energy and Chemicals Park Rheinland, near Cologne in Germany, the mega project is part of the Refhyne European consortium which will utilize the PEM technology to produce green hydrogen.

The American Chemistry Council (ACC) has revealed that U.S. specialty chemicals market volumes rose 0.7 % in May and are now above the pre-winter storm levels of January.

Stena Recycling has plans to build a new lithium-ion battery recycling plant in Halmstad, Sweden which aims to recycle 95 % of the battery. On completion, the facility is expected to become one of Europe’s most advanced battery recycling units.

New executives take the helm at Exxon Mobil, Eastman, Huntsman, Nova Chemicals, and other major players in the process industry. PROCESS worldwide summarizes the latest management news for you.

A huge fire recently broke out at SVS Aqua Technologies, a chemical company in Pune, India. The fire left 17 people dead however the cause of the fire is yet to be ascertained.

Indian Oil will invest 6 billion dollars to establish the 387 TMTPA facility at Indian Oil's Panipat Refinery & Petrochemical Complex in Haryana. The project is part of Indian Oil’s ‘Panipat Refinery Expansion Project’ which also includes the construction of a new 2.5 MMTPA Fluidized Catalytic Cracking Unit.

Neste has awarded Technip Energies with two contracts which revolve around the development of its renewables production platform in Rotterdam, the Netherlands. The first contract includes EPCM for the modification of Neste's existing renewables production refinery in order to produce SAF while the second one includes FEED for Neste's potential renewable products refinery.

Leybold is taking a big step toward the digitalization of its product line and has an innovative online sound check for vacuum pumps on its website. With this free tool, users receive immediate feedback regarding the condition of their vacuum pumps.